Core--Pilot project program

试点项目计划由 行政核心，彼得斯博士担任主任。它宣称的目标是为 小规模项目为大型项目确立可行性，执行 验证研究方法，并吸引新的研究人员到中心 并允许目前的调查人员朝着新的方向发展。在过去的四年里 多年来，共资助了20个试点项目，资金总额为353,563美元(平均 每个项目大约18,000美元)。这些试点项目起到了重要作用。 引入新的中心调查人员，以及为新的 当前中心调查人员的指导和资金 研究生/博士后研究员。 实际获得资助的项目平均分配给了基础科学和 流行病学研究。至少有两名调查人员曾两次获得 试点项目机制，但在两种情况下，针对完全不同的 研究项目。

The Pilot Projects Program is administered by the Administrative Core with Dr. Peters as Director. Its stated goals are to fund small scale projects to establish feasibility for larger projects, perform validation of study methods, and to attract new investigators to the Center and allow current investigators to move in new directions. In the past four years, 20 Pilot Projects have been funded for a total of $353,563 (average approximately $18,000/project). These Pilot Projects have been instrumental in bringing in new Center investigators, as well as providing funding for new directions for current Center investigators and funding for graduate/postdoctoral fellows. The actual projects funded have been equally divided between basic science and epidemiologic research. At least two investigators have been funded twice by the Pilot Project mechanism, but in both cases, for completely different research programs.